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Writing null and alternative hypotheses

Problem

A ketchup company regularly receives large shipments of tomatoes. For each shipment that is received, a supervisor takes a random sample of 500 tomatoes to see what percent of the sample is bruised and performs a significance test. If the sample shows convincing evidence that more than 10% of the entire shipment of tomatoes is bruised, then they will request a new shipment of tomatoes.
Let p represent the proportion of tomatoes in a shipment that are bruised.
What are appropriate hypotheses for the company's significance test?
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